Saturday, August 11, 2007

Dynamic Div’s

I’ve been trying for some time to come to grips with the concept of dynamically rendering pages so that bits of the content change without doing a refresh or rewrite.
There are a number of approaches to this with the obvious one being php. However a lot of coders find this whole php thing to be a bit intimidating, and want a way to make things happen without going down the road of learning that whole new language.
I started out working with iFrames and this is a brillant way to insert live updates and video and stuff into a page; but there are some frustrating limitations. Like for instance your iFrame stays the same size no matter what you squirt into it! Consider an Amazon aStore: the front page is about 600px high, but the actual shop pages are 1000px or m View the rest of this article


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